UWF Television Championship
| UWF Television Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Universal Wrestling Federation World Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | May 2, 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | November 26, 1987 | ||||||||||||
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The UWF Television Championship, promoted by the Universal Wrestling Federation, started out as the Mid-South Television Championship in 1984 and was then represented by a medal. It was renamed when Mid-South Wrestling changed its name to the UWF in 1986 and the title medal was replaced by a belt. The TV title was the mid-level wrestlers' title during its existence. The title's final appearance was during Nikita Koloff's interview on the November 28, 1987 edition of World Championship Wrestling, with Koloff then declaring the NWA TV title was the only TV title, effectively unifying the UWF TV title into its NWA counterpart and retiring the former title.
Title History
[edit]| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Krusher Khruschev | May 2, 1984 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 1 | 45 | Defeated Terry Taylor in tournament final; Magnum T. A. defeats Khruschev in May 1984, but the groggy ref gives the title medal to Khruschev | |
| 2 | Terry Taylor | June 16, 1984 | MSW Show | New Orleans, Louisiana | 1 | 102 | ||
| 3 | Adrian Street | September 26, 1984 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 1 | 42 | ||
| 4 | Bill Dundee | November 7, 1984 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 1 | 38 | ||
| 5 | "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel | December 15, 1984 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 1 | 18 | ||
| 6 | Terry Taylor | January 2, 1985 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 2 | 70 | ||
| — | Vacated | March 13, 1985 | — | N/A | — | — | Terry Taylor won North American Championship | |
| 7 | Snowman | May 8, 1985 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 1 | 63 | ||
| 8 | Dutch Mantell | July 10, 1985 | MSW Show | Shreveport, Louisiana | 1 | 12 | ||
| 9 | Butch Reed | July 22, 1985 | MSW Show | New Orleans, Louisiana | 1 | 84 | ||
| — | Vacated | October 14, 1985 | — | N/A | — | — | Butch Reed won North American Championship | |
| 10 | Jake Roberts | January 1, 1986 | MSW Show | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 1 | 58 | Defeated Dick Slater in tournament final | |
| 11 | Dick Slater | February 28, 1986 | MSW Show | Houston, Texas | 1 | 16 | Renamed the UWF Television Championship during Slater's reign | [1] |
| 12 | Buzz Sawyer | March 16, 1986 | UWF show | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 1 | 70 | Given title by Slater | |
| 13 | Terry Taylor | May 25, 1986 | UWF show | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 3 | 126 | ||
| 14 | Buddy Roberts | September 28, 1986 | UWF show | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 1 | 42 | ||
| 15 | Savannah Jack | November 9, 1986 | UWF show | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 1 | 119 | ||
| 16 | Eddie Gilbert | March 8, 1987 | UWF show | Tulsa, Oklahoma | 1 | 148 | ||
| 17 | Shane Douglas | August 3, 1987 | UWF show | Morgan City, Louisiana | 1 | 30 | ||
| 18 | Terry Taylor | September 2, 1987 | UWF show | Lafayette, Louisiana | 4 | 85 | ||
| 19 | Nikita Koloff | November 26, 1987 | Starrcade (1987) | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 0 | ||
| — | Deactivated | November 26, 1987 | — | N/A | — | — | Koloff unified title with NWA World Television Championship | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hoops, Brian (February 28, 2017). "Daily pro wrestling history (02/28): Andersen & Hansen win NWA Tag Titles". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 28, 2017.